T EE Germans are greatly concerned about a project which they attribute to the Emperor's Government. His Majesty intends, they believe, to ask for a large increase to his Army,...

two proclamations for the diminution of public security. The first suspends the "Crimes Act," which was already suspended except in County Clare, all over Ireland ; and the...

Birmingham Town Hall, in favour of a legislative restriction on shopping hours. He declared, as the result of investigation, that there were a million persons engaged in the...

case.

Sir E. Watkin, to whom the mountain now belongs, and en route delivered on Monday and Tuesday two little speeches to applauding crowds. Their drift was to compliment Wales for...

of the Northampton Liberal and Radioal Association, which is from end to end a scarcely-veiled menace to the Ministry. He "trusts that, as they have attained power by Radical...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, October 8th, will be issued gratie, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

Wednesday, after hoping that the Government would be able to get rid of the system of making Ministers seek re-election by "showing themselves unselfish in the corner of some...

oft New York in quarantine, having cholera on board. The healthy passengers-471 in number—were transferred to the Stonington,' but she proved unseaworthy, and they were sent in...

in Manchester, on Tuesday, it was decided to reduce the wages of the operatives by 5 per cent. Before, however, the month's notice is given, the Committee of the masters is to...

Peary's expedition to Greenland. Lieutenant Peary, who left America last year accompanied by his wife and five men, hoped to reach the North Pole by crossing the interior of...

speech before the Institute of Journalists, at its con- ference dinner in Edinburgh. He maintained that the Foreign Secretary was very like a journalist, for he was over-...

one of the most interesting blue-books ever issued, was published on Tuesday,—the Report by the Secretary and Comptroller. General of the Proceedings of the Commissioners for...

was a run on the Birkbeck Bank, of Southampton Buildings,—a perfectly sound institution, but one liable to such a danger, owing to the number of small and timid de- positors....

curious circular issued by Messrs. Hambledon, of Baltimore. The strong position of America is asserted to be the fact that Europe must take her breadstuffs, while America is not...

of England, on Thursday, is by no means so favourable to the prospects of the Baring Liquidation as that of Mr. Lidderdale was last year. It is true he stated that the total of...

virulence of the epidemic is abating on the Continent. "Marked decrease, even on the Volga," is the report of Thurs- day from Russia ; while in Hamburg the new cases sunk on...

her fortune of £50,000 to Monaco a few days since, and on September 3rd won £4,000 at the tables. She always played on a single number, 24, and in three days lost 244,000. Next...

New Console (2!) were on Friday 97i.

MR. GLADSTONE IN CARNARVON. W E confess to have read the two short speeches which Mr. Gladstone has this week delivered in Carnarvon with a feeling indistinguishable from...

Session will see the formation of a group of malcontents among the ranks of the Home-rule party. The presiding genius of that group will be the senior Member for Northampton....

sensational chapter in the old-fashioned novel—" The Run on the Bank" —and how the novelist used all his art to depict the struggling and agonised crowd of half-crazy men and...

summer been the scene of a thoroughly modern gathering. By a happy com- bination of spiritual business and earthly pleasure, the Christian holiday-makers who trusted themselves...

of Experts to those who attend it is manifest enough. They see each other's faces, they estimate each other's powers, and they some- times gain from each other positive...

T N the Spectator of September 10th, we gave some reasons for thinking that the spirit of the new Radicalism is not so hostile to the Church, and will not make so strongly for...

I Na pamphlet just issued by the War Office, will le found complete directions for the mobilisation from the Regular Forces of three Army Corps for home defence. The orders are...

regard to English public life than the educational effect it produces upon those who engage in it. Not only does it turn the dandies and the " bullet-headed" squires into...

T HE Spectator is often assailed, and that by its own friends, for doubting whether the reign of selfishness, as the strongest motive-power in human affairs, draws as yet very...

S UCCESS in fishing has been ascribed half to luck and the other half to keeping out of sight. That is excellent as an epigram ; but the man who trusts to either, or both, will...

T HERE is perhaps no human feeling that is so easily led astray as that which struggles against the inexorable law of Time and Death, and passionately refuses to forget the...

EGYPT AND "NO CONFIDENCE." [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTLTOR.1 Sin,—With reference to the suggestion made by you in your issue of September 10th, that I am one of two Liberal...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR.'] SIli, — In describing the present political "Lull," you advise, with much happiness of phrase, "those in power to think, those in opposition...

rTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.”1 SIR,—In your article on the Trades-Union Congress, you condemn "the craze of ' boycotting ' goods" made by sweated labour, on the ground...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR,"] have neither said nor implied that St.VPattl's presence on Areopagus meant a "formal trial with the usages tradi-. tional in cases of...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—Have you not misread the note of the Times' corre- spondent on M. Pasteur's proposed experiments with anti- choleraic vaccine ? M....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—With reference to your article on this subject, in which you quote a recent dictum of the Pall Mall Gazette, to the effect that the...

• [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—Having been absent from England, I have only recently- seen the Spectator of August 20th, in which I have read with special interest...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...] SIE,—Perhaps the following incident would interest students of natural history amongst your readers. Last week some sports took place at a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOE."] SIR,—I turned with as great expectation to the letter from Mr. Scot Skirving about the cuckoo in your last issue as I did to that published...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SEECTATOR."] SIR,—The writer of the article in the Spectator of September 10th, having the above title, has made an astonishing mis- quotation in the...

ENGLA.ND MY MOTHER. [Epilogue, from an unpublished volume.] I. ENGLAND my Mother, Wardress of waters, Builder of peoples, Maker of men,— Ha,st thou yet leisure Left for the...

LEADING CASES.* SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK is a standing example of that connection between law and literature which, to use Milton's happy phrase, is "so ancient and so eminent...

w The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes. 13 vols. London : Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 1E9L AFTER all, the contributions which Dr. Holmes has made to literature are but...

his own business best. Otherwise, it would certainly seem to us that the combination of humour, pathos, and imagination exhibited in the series of stories which he has...

THE Scottish History Society has done some admirable work in the way of investigation and of the publication of unknown or little known documents, but none better than this...

who know little more of him than the fact that he went to India as a Mis- sionary, and has left behind him an enduring fame as one of the noblest of the noble army of martyrs....

LORD MAHorr's elaborate and hitherto standard edition of Chesterfield's Letters, published in 1845, has failed to satisfy Dr. Bradshaw, whose researches have enabled him to...

"Births and Marriages." (Dickens and Evans.)—This is, we think, a new venture. " The births and marriages advertised through- out the United Kingdom" are given under dates (not...

interesting and useful little book, dealing with the four Swiss cantons of Lucerne, Schwyz, Uri, and 17nterwalden, is a combination of guide-book, history, and constitutional...

(Digby and Long )—The writer entered the Royal Navy in times of peace —he tells us that he was born in the Waterloo year—and saw a good deal of the world in such services as...

and Co.)—The "sawdust," which signifies the circus, cannot be held in fairness responsible for all the dreadful things that happen in this story. It did not make Leila's mother...

A.M. 2 yobs. (Silver, Burdett, and Co., Boston, U.S.A.)—Mr. Whitney takes one by one the readings from which tbe Revisers translated, compares them with the textu3 receptus, an...

(Eden Remington and Co.)—We may conjecture that Mr. Leake is one of the party which seeks to revive Jacobitism in the nineteenth century. "Tell me," he bursts out at the end of...

Hungary and its People. By Louis Felbermann. (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—The author, though bearing a German name, expresses a strong devotion to what he speaks of as his...

John Watson, F.L.S. This is an eminently practical little book. In less than two hundred pages, a number of experienced and well-informed writers—such as Sir George...

W. Mackail, and J. B. B. Nichols—contribute to this delightful volume of verse. Part of it has already been published in a little book entitled "Love in Idleness," and some of...